Dec 14, 2022

Safety Advisor - Mobile, Somalia & Somaliland

Job Location: Somalia & Somaliland

Base Salary: €4550 per month
Closing date: 31 Dec 2022

We are now hiring our Safety Advisor- Mobile. This position in based in Hargeisa, Somaliland.

Job Summary:
Reporting to Deputy Director, you will be responsible for a range of analysis tasks, providing advice, production of written briefs and identification of trends and patterns within quantitative datasets of security incidents.

Major Responsibilities
Participate proactively in defining INSO strategy
Establish and maintain an active information network, which includes NGOs, the UN, military forces, and other national and international actors to obtain credible and relevant safety information.
Participate in humanitarian coordination meetings and provide access and security enabling information.
Provide NGOs with timely and credible information and contextual analysis of the local security situation through alerts, reports, weekly incident lists and bi-weekly analytical reports.
Facilitate and lead regional NGO community security roundtables.
Assist NGOs in developing their own security management capacities by reviewing policy documents, conducting site-security surveys, and assisting in crisis evacuation planning.
Provide technical backstopping to regional teams when respective Safety Advisors are on leave
Effectively represent, promote, and protect INSO’s mandate of independence, impartiality, and neutrality.
Translate perspective of regional teams’ operations into insights which can improve the quality and efficiency of INSO programming.
Pro-actively collect information relevant to NGOs safety and security: create and maintain a diversified network of information sources (Governments, NGOs, journalists, internet, elders, businesses etc) and shared with the regional offices.
Assist the Deputy Director (DD) to undertake his/her duties.
Assist the Deputy Director in coordinating the regional teams, and updating or developing new INSO products such as access briefs, access map, area of influence, etc.
Supervise all missions to update the existing access briefs or producing new ones

Mandatory Requirements:
Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
Masters level education or equivalent in a relevant field.
Proven writing, editing, and analytical skills.
Experience in insecure/conflict-affected environments.
Strong writing and proven analytical abilities
Personal and professional resilience in a fast-moving, high-output, quality-driven program.
Experience in the humanitarian, and/or risk management and/or humanitarian access sectors.
Independent drive, motivation, and excellence, and ability to operate and sustainably manage staff and teams under strict systems and deadlines.
Well-developed personal, organisational and team management skills and standards in a diverse multicultural setting.
Demonstrable understanding of humanitarian safety practices and principles and their application

Preferred Characteristics:
2 years recent experience in Somalia/Somaliland ideally in an NGO safety or analysis role or equivalent.
Demonstrable understanding of security dynamics in Somalia/Somaliland
Experience with NGO security and/or project management.
Existing information networks.
Local language skills.

Key Personal Competencies:
A good listener
An effective communicator
Excellent analyst
Team player
Excellent interpersonal skills
A people manager

Terms & Conditions:
12-month renewable contract, €4550 per month salary, 4 calendar days annual leave per month and 7 calendar days of R&R every 10 weeks with a €1250 R&R allowance each cycle, housing, global medical coverage (excluding USA) and AD&D insurance.


How to apply
Submit application to: oooooooo@oooooooo.com (Email is available to Subscribers Only )